Category: Science

A veteran space reporter describes the full-body experience of watching NASA’s historic Artemis II lift off

April 4, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over

Mathematician Richard Elwes surveys googology, the study of enormous numbers, in a new book.

Many of the photos that have come out of the moon mission so far were taken by crew members. NASA says the crew is getting

NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with NASA’s Kelsey Evans Young, the Artemis science flight operations lead, about the rigors of space and the lunar slingshot to

There is public concern about health risks from the chemicals, especially from the Make America Healthy Again movement. The agency’s move doesn’t in itself guarantee

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Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) could shine brightly in the evenings after April 4, but only if it survives a very close encounter with the sun.

Scientists have developed a novel approach to error correction that resulted in the highest-ever fidelity of entangled, logical qubits on a superconducting quantum processor.

People’s minds sometimes wander to their bodily sensations, which may reduce symptoms of depression and ADHD, a new study suggests.

In Chiles v. Salazar, the court ruled that a therapist has First Amendment protections. That could impact how talk therapy is regulated.

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window on April 2, 2026, after completing the

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules

As Artemis II begins humanity’s first return to the moon in over 50 years, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft shared their first message